Another day in antenna hell. This time, I needed a 440Mhz antenna for
a temporary repeater installation. My last remaining antenna a rather
broken Diamond X50a. The previous owner leaned the antenna against a
wall, and then backed his car into it, breaking the fiberglass radome
and bending the guts. I managed to unmangle the antenna and epoxy the
radome, but somewhere in the shuffle, the ground radials disappeared.
Duz anyone have an X50a handy that can measure the length of the
ground radials (from the aluminum base casting to the end)? The
current random length welding rods (with toothpicks jammed into the
holes) are not going to last.



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